| Date | Area | Gross |
|---|---|---|
| USA | USD 201,468 |
Special Jury Prize |
| Date | Area | Gross |
|---|---|---|
| USA | USD 201,468 |
SPOILERS After appearing in television series "Press Gang", yet many years before his role in "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" (1998), a British minor celebrity called Dexter Fletcher appeared in "The Rachel Papers". Sometimes put forward as the British equivalent of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (1986), the film is a decent enough attempt which improves as the story progresses and keeps you entertained throughout.
Charles Highway (Dexter Fletcher) sees himself as a player and keeps girls' info in his computer. He has worked out strategies to get girls.
It's okay film about an American young lady (Ione Skye) and a British young man who intends to go to Cambridge and Oxford in London, England. Charles Highway is played by a decent young actor.
(This review briefly touches on elements of the film and book, and so I have tagged it as having spoilers.)So, I read The Rachel Papers and watched the film about two days after.
Okay-this is definitely trying to parade around as an English Bueller... but the thing is, is that the book is terrific, and if they just stayed on track using what was there it would've been a lot better.
A-ha, a guide to the do's and don'ts of dating on the big screen.I've always liked Martin Amis' works, and 1974's The Rachel Papers was his first novel, and still one of his best.
This is an excellent movie that is underrated. Performance by Ione Skye is OUTSTANDING.
This is an excellent movie that appears to have gotten a lot of poor reviews. The performance by Ione Skye is OUTSTANDING.
This one was an odd, passionate and snappy one, and it's very much more than just a basic teenage love comedy, but it does feel a like a British take on 'Ferris Bueller'. Based on Martin Amis' best seller of the same title, 'The Rachel Papers' is a sensually breezy and topically substantial film adaptation that's poetically told (with plenty of rapid narrative talk to the audience, following the mature progression of our protagonist and cementing a realistic affection between Fletcher and Skye's characters), sharply directed by Damian Harris and terrifically performed by the charmingly gawky Dexter Fletcher, the ravishingly delightful Ione Skye (where she seductively entices the viewer with her beauty) and the scruffy, but useful Jonathan Pryce (who pretty much steals the limelight and well-timed laughs).
